scholarly journals Masculinity and Femininity: Essential to the Identity of the Human Person

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Nancy O'Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
The Core ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract The title of this congress begins with the word “identity”. It also includes the word “reciprocity,” which indicates a form of relationship and finally, “gift of self”. This would lead us to conclude that the identity of the human person has something to do with reciprocity and that reciprocity involves giving of oneself to others. This talk will attempt to shed light on how the concept of gender might in some way be incorporated into these three concepts. Defining what constitutes the identity of the human person has been explored, and attempts to define it have been made by every major theorist in the field of psychology. At a previous Psychology and Communion congress one of the talks (Ionata, 2002) spoke of loving and being loved in return as the basic foundation of human identity. In that presentation we find the following observation: “The identity of the human person can be compared to the identity of a book: we know where and when it was printed; but the author is certainly not the publishing house, nor is the typesetter who prepared the text…The same is true for us human beings: we know the time and date of birth. But who is author?” (31). We ask ourselves, therefore: what lies at the core of the identity of this being who is born at a certain time on a certain date? Before proceeding, I think it is important to note that the basic idea regarding the identity of the human person, as we have defined and understood it from the inception of psychology and communion and explored in previous encounters, remains unchanged. I will use a quote of Chiara Lubich here that perhaps many of you know but which can serve the purpose of laying the foundation for what follows: Human beings are “(…) all equal but distinct. To each person [God] gave his own beauty so that they would be desirable and lovable by others; and so that in love (the common substance in which they recognize themselves as one and see themselves in each other) they would be recomposed into the One who had created them with his Light, which is Himself.” Now we ask ourselves: What exactly is this “beauty” that Chiara is speaking of? What are the components, if you will, of our identity that makes us “… desirable and lovable by others…”?

Position-taking

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Stanghellini
Keyword(s):  
External Influence ◽  
Common Root ◽  
Schizotypal Personality ◽  
The Core ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Extreme Variability ◽  
Plausible Answer ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

This chapter argues that the extreme variability of schizophrenic phenotypes is a paradigmatic case study for explicating the dialectics between uncanny feelings of depersonalization/derealization and the attitude of the person who experiences them. Why do persons who suffer from these kinds of anomalous self-, body-, and world-experiences develop either a delusional form of schizophrenia or a ‘pauci-symptomatic’ type of this illness, or a schizotypal personality disorder? Why do delusions in people with schizophrenia take on so many different themes, and not only ontological ones, but also, for example, persecutory, hypochondriac, of reference, of agnition (filiation), external influence, etc.? If we subscribe to the ‘one root–many branches’ conceptualization of the manifold of schizophrenia, then we must be able to explain why, arising from the common root of self-disorders, schizophrenic phenotypes take on so many different features. A plausible answer is that self-disorder, being at the core of the vulnerability to schizophrenia, is refracted through the prism of the person’s background of values and beliefs that determine what things and events in the world mean for them. This personal background is a pre-reflective context of meaning and significance within which and against which persons understand themselves, others, and their world.

scholarly journals Zero-Shot Ingredient Recognition by Multi-Relational Graph Convolutional Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (07) ◽  
pp. 10542-10550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingjing Chen ◽  
Liangming Pan ◽  
Zhipeng Wei ◽  
Xiang Wang ◽  
Chong-Wah Ngo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Assessment ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Convolutional Network ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
The Core ◽  
Training Samples ◽  
Robust Recognition ◽  
The Common ◽  
Shed Light

Recognizing ingredients for a given dish image is at the core of automatic dietary assessment, attracting increasing attention from both industry and academia. Nevertheless, the task is challenging due to the difficulty of collecting and labeling sufficient training data. On one hand, there are hundred thousands of food ingredients in the world, ranging from the common to rare. Collecting training samples for all of the ingredient categories is difficult. On the other hand, as the ingredient appearances exhibit huge visual variance during the food preparation, it requires to collect the training samples under different cooking and cutting methods for robust recognition. Since obtaining sufficient fully annotated training data is not easy, a more practical way of scaling up the recognition is to develop models that are capable of recognizing unseen ingredients. Therefore, in this paper, we target the problem of ingredient recognition with zero training samples. More specifically, we introduce multi-relational GCN (graph convolutional network) that integrates ingredient hierarchy, attribute as well as co-occurrence for zero-shot ingredient recognition. Extensive experiments on both Chinese and Japanese food datasets are performed to demonstrate the superior performance of multi-relational GCN and shed light on zero-shot ingredients recognition.

Aristotle's Wondering Children

Politeia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-81
Author(s):  
Ioannis Alysandratos ◽  
Dimitra Balla ◽  
Despina Konstantinidi ◽  
Panagiotis Thanassas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Status ◽  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Systematic Account ◽  
Imperfect State ◽  
The One ◽  
Shed Light

Wonder is undoubtedly a term that floats around in today’s academic discussion both on ancient philosophy and on philosophy of education. Back in the 4th century B.C., Aristotle underlined the fact that philosophy begins in wonder (θαυμάζειν), without being very specific about the conditions and the effects of its emergence. He focused a great deal on children’s education, emphasizing its fundamental role in human beings’ moral fulfillment, though he never provided a systematic account of children’s moral status. The aim of this paper is to examine, on the one hand, if, to what extent, and under what conditions, Aristotle allows for philosophical wonder to emerge in children’s souls, and, on the other hand, how his approach to education may shed light to the link between wonder and the ultimate moral end, i.e. human flourishing. We will, thus, 1) try to offer a unified outlook of the philosopher’s views on children’s special cognitive and moral state, and 2) illustrate how wonder contributes in overcoming their imperfect state of being.

scholarly journals Hearts, desires and behavioural patterns: Debating human nature in ancient China

2011 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Gassmann
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Early China ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Behavioural Patterns ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

AbstractThinkers in the Zhànguó period of Chinese history debated intensely whether men were by nature “good” or “bad”. This debate has for many years been an important focus of sinological interest, but usually these properties were not attributed to men, but rather to so-called “human nature” (xìng 性) – thus, in effect, mirroring well-known (and problematic) “European” positions and discussions. The aim of this paper is, on the one hand, to redirect attention to the original Zhànguó positions and to explore the reasons for their variance by offering novel and close historical readings of relevant passages, and on the other, to propose a viable historical reconstruction of the common anthropological assumptions underlying these positions by blending it with the traces of a dominant cognitive image present in the texts. This calls for a systematic rethinking of the role of hearts (in the plural), desires, and behavioural patterns in their interplay and as elements of a concept of the psychological build of human beings current in early China.

The Charitable John Locke

2009 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 428-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Forde
Keyword(s):  
Moral Theory ◽  
Common Good ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Definitive Treatment ◽  
Economic Assistance ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Needy ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractLocke's political philosophy, like any that centers on individual rights such as property rights, raises the question whether human beings have any duty to charity, or economic assistance, to the needy. Locke's works contain some strong statements in favor of such a duty, but in his definitive treatment of property, chapter 5 of the Second Treatise of Government, he is conspicuously silent on charity. Based on a reading of that chapter and other texts, I conclude that the basis of Lockean morality is not individual right per se, but concern for the common good. I compare Locke's theory of property to those of Aquinas, Grotius, and Pufendorf in order to shed light on Locke's view of property and charity. Finally, I argue that Locke has a tiered moral theory that separates justice from charity. His economic and political theories focus on justice, masking Locke's actual devotion to charity.

scholarly journals A Story of Scattered Hearts: Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Dr. Varsha Vaidya ◽  
Mr. Siddharth Patil
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Emotional Balance ◽  
Emotional Basis

Human beings are so fragile and impatient that they are easily subjected on emotional basis. It is in human nature that they empathise everything that emotionally attach with them. Emotion plays a vital role in the entire world of human relationship. It is not inept to note here that our thoughts are often forms the core of our actions. It reflects the framework of our psychology greatly. There are instances in the world of living where one work affects because of the mood of a person. Deliberately, the writers across the world develop and circle their thoughts around emotional balance of human beings in various points. They successfully stress the effect of a particular crisis and it’s outcomes on human mind. The present research paper deals with the effects of such crisis on the lives of human being who are deeply engulfed in their normal life. The study is a sincere endeavour to bring to the fore a serious effect of Nepali-a politically motivated-uprising on the common man living peacefully, amicably in harmony with nature.

scholarly journals Η θεραπευτική σχέση στην υπαρξιακή-ανθρωπιστική προσέγγιση

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Evgenia T. Georganda
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Humanistic Approach ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Relationship ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

This article intends to highlight the importance of the psychotherapeutic relationship and the way with which it is viewed by the Existential-Humanistic approach to psychotherapy and counseling. The introduction includes a brief overview of the various existential approaches and the common way with which they all view therapy. The article continues by relating the basic premises of the Existential-Humanistic approach as well as its understanding of human beings and of the process of psychotherapy. Furthermore, the factors that contribute to the establishment of the psychotherapeutic relationship are being analyzed. The Existential-Humanistic approach to psychotherapy gives emphasis to the value of a true dialogue between two human beings who are there serving the interests of the one. In order for the therapeutic relationship to be effective there needs to be a clear framework that helps the members feel safe. In this “sanctuary” the two individuals have an “I-Thou” encounter. The “presence” of both parties serves as the catalyst for change through this mutual and honest way of relating.

scholarly journals Filozofia postrzegania. Początki literackie Bolesława Prusa w świetle psychologicznych dociekań Hipolita Taine’a

2019 ◽  
pp. 185-207
Author(s):  
Marcin Jauksz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
The Core ◽  
Strong Point ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
Point Of Reference ◽  
Psychological Studies

The article’s aim is to present Bolesław Prus’s [Aleksander Głowacki’s] early literary endavours in the light of the reception of Hippolite Taine’s psychological studies at the turn of the sixties and seventies of the nineteenth century. The Author challenges the common conviction of the fact that Taine’s work has not been a strong point of reference for Prus before 1880 and shows how the strategies of gaining knowledge described by the French philosopher are reflected in the structure and peculiar fragments of Prus’s Warsaw sketches. The syncretism of those literary pieces, that join Prus’s column writing style with journalistic interventionism on the one hand and romantic musings of the literary wanderer, a figure at the core of the stories, on the other allows to show writer’s indecisiveness as a sign of positivistic doubt in approachableness of the nature of reality and of every singular experience.

scholarly journals Values of love: two forms of infinity characteristic of human persons

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-450
Author(s):  
Sara Heinämaa
Keyword(s):  
Personal Values ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
The Core ◽  
Dynamic Character ◽  
Personal Value ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
The One ◽  
Organizing Principles

AbstractIn his late reflections on values and forms of life from the 1920s and 1930s, Husserl develops the concept of personal value and argues that these values open two kinds of infinities in our lives. On the one hand personal values disclose infinite emotive depths in human individuals while on the other hand they connect human individuals in continuous and progressive chains of care. In order to get at the core of the concept, I will explicate Husserl’s discussion of personal values of love by distinguishing between five related features. I demonstrate that values of love (1) are rooted in egoic depts and define who we are as persons, (2) differ from objective values in being absolute and non-comparative, (3) ground vocational lives as organizing principles, (4) are endlessly self-disclosing and self-intensifying, and (5) establish transitive relations of care between human beings. On the basis of my five-partite distinction, I argue that Husserl’s concepts of love and value of love reveal the dynamic character of human subjectivity and intersubjectivity.

scholarly journals The Feelings of The Womam in Present Day Poems

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-139
Author(s):  
M Beham Kalitha
Keyword(s):  
Family Values ◽  
The Core ◽  
Ancient Time ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
Important Relationship ◽  
The One ◽  
Traditional Poetry ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Working Woman

Poems are composed by many from ancient time till date, those who are having interest, great vocabulary and its timely and proper use are sustained and became famous in this field. In poems of this great people the events happened in their own life or witnessed by them will be the core of their poems. In this order, this poem is also the one which is expressing the feelings of the woman. The important relationship in the whole world and which one make us proud is “MOTHER”. This poem shed light on the feelings of the mother, the atrocities imposed on her in the name of family values or duty of mother and the husband’s doubts about her morality. Also, this is explaining about the sexual harassments of the working woman and their mindset, infant suffering, and the one still in home without marriage due to religion, cast, creed, and financial difficulties. In short this is detailing all the sufferings of a woman in non-traditional poetry form.

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